Creating meals with leftovers that can be repurposed helps you save valuable time in the long run. MINNEAPOLIS — Cooking in December can be a pain because there is so much other stuff going on between holiday shopping, parties and the extra baking. So how about making a meal that you can turn into something else with the leftovers? Hy-Vee Registered Dietitian, Melissa Jaeger, joined KARE 11 to offer up some suggestions. Recipe #1: Spicy Honey-Garlic Pork Meatballs 1 […]

The holidays are here! It’s that great time of the year to celebrate with family, friends and colleagues enjoying traditional festivities, including delicious foods that are traditionally made with saturated fats, sugars and sodium. Throughout the season, we are seen cramming plates with holiday food, heavy on the starch and light on the veggies. Traditional holiday foods are not known for their low calories or healthy ingredients. How you eat and drink on one or two days of the year […]

Kentucky Fried Rooster has turn into a large strike in Japan in the course of the Christmas year, with traces wrapping all-around the corner and making enormous income. Japanese YouTuber Yoko Ishii gave Fox News a glimpse within how the fast-foodstuff chain became a getaway phenomenon more than the past 50 decades.   KFC Japan records its greatest annual income figures for the duration of the operate-up to Xmas, with Dec. 24 serving as the chain’s “busiest day of the […]

European tours make for amazing memories and I had made many when I returned stateside a little over 20 years ago (gasp). Many American tourists bring home trinkets to remember their travels, but I went even further. I went all in, adding 20 pounds to my waistline. This newly expanded version of myself served as my keepsake of my Euro travels (for a while, anyhow). I’ve confided in you before about this larger version of myself, but have I ever […]

Satisfying strategies to adopt during a season of festive food. Many people wait until January 1st to begin eating healthier. After all, the holidays are full of stress and extra helpings of rich festive foods, so why bother? But banish that negative thought, because this is an ideal time to adopt new habits. “The dietary changes you make now can help you manage the stress and avoid overindulging on holiday fare,” says Teresa Fung, a registered dietitian with Harvard’s T.H. […]

When the holidays roll around, you can count on spending plenty of time with family and (probably) eating tons of food. It’s common to experience food guilt around the holidays, especially if you take care to eat a balanced diet. In fact, a 2020 study found 63% of Americans experienced food guilt during the holiday season.  This holiday season, give yourself grace when it comes to sharing meals with family and friends. Here’s what you need to know about food […]